Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-12-04

about five hours a day IN the Mayor 2
office at New York and works as hard as
any ten-dOllar.a-week clerk in the country.
Whitelaw Reid is said to be y very hard
worker. Jay Cook still carries OF his la
bOrs at his Office in Philadelphia, and Rob-
ert Bonner spends about five hours a day
in his sanctum at the Ledger Office. George
w. Childs reaches his office at nine O'Clock
and remains there steadily until one. He
then goes to DreXel's bank, and he and
Drexel dine together, and at
two he is back in his office and at
work. He is not a hard work
er, and he makes the most Of his life 10 Gu
Toying such good things in it as ccme 10
his hand. He likes his friends and he is
fond of society.
P. T. Barnum makes it rule to 60 to
bed at 10 O'Clock every night. He an
swers his correspondence in the morning,
attends 10 his tenants, aud is kept posted
as 10 how the shows are going on by tele-
graph. He il generally through his work by
dinner, which he takes in the middle OF the
day. Ond after this he has u short siesta,
doing in his chair. He gets up at seven
aud takes a drive both morning aud after
coon. H does not drink or smoke, and
ne is fond Of music and whist.
George w. Childs is a great pedestrian,
aud both he and Drexel take q walk every
day, while Bonner goes to his stables as
soOn az he comes home from his Office and
spends some time in fOndliug his horses.
Henry p. Payne, the Ohio millionaire SEN
atOr, is also 4 pedestrian, and he walks
from bis home near the White House, in
Washington, to the Capitol while he is in
attendance upon the Senate. He makes
at least three miles a day upon his feet,
and though he does not weigh over $50
pounds, his flesh is solid and every bit of
| II is muscle.
A. 7. Stewart was q remarkable worker,
and it is said that he knew the details Of
every branch of his biz establishment on
Broadway, aud during the time That hia
custom duties averaged $50, 900 Il day he
was posted on the pay Of the cash boys
who got hut five dOilaIS q week. Stewards
employees were so many that he kept de-
t~ectivcs to watch them and his daily re-
Ceipts averaged about SGO,000 II day.
Stewart was a good buyer as well rs a good
seller. He bad his agents all over the
| WI III, tilu Il wa NilLAl pic W ibNNN " N-NLi
The amount of money and collateral
that some of these rich men keep on hand
is astonishing. Jay Gould was Ouce sus-
pected of being on the verge of failure, and
though rs q rule he shuns the newspaper
man, at this time he used him. He called
au associated press reporter into his Office,
opened his safe and showed him securities
to the amount of $50, coo, 900. Phil Ar
mour has reports from the banks with
which he does business AT the various cen.
tiers, as to the amoRnt OF money he has on
hand each day. These sums often run as
high rs 4 million dollars aid upwards.
and he thus knows exactly "a TO how much
he can use in speculation. He is q keen
Spectator and he deals in millions. lie
made 1000, 900 on pork in n single deal in
1879, and he has now q business of $50
000, 600.
Phil Armour when he took his son into
business placed 81 1000, 900 to his credit
and gave him his full confidence. The
son proved worthy of his fathers faith in
him, and il is said that the relation be-
tween the two is the strongest, both in
business aud family way. Phil Armour's
father took his children into his confidence
and the boys were considered to be part
ners in their fathers business affairs.
Young Phil had access to his fathers priu-
ciple Of training children so well that he
adopted it in the training of his SOD.
His mother was a good business
woman, and she was shown the
weekly balance sheets Of the different Ar
mour houses and passed her Judgment
upon them. She urges her sons to stand
by each other, and Phil Armour, in a re-
cent talk with John A. Sleicher, of AL
bany, said that be would give his last dol
lar rather than TO see one Of bis brothers
tail.
Speaking of rich mems sons the general
idea prevails that they are destined for the
devil, and there is no doubt hut that q
number of them 60 that way. The ex-
ceptions are, however, numerous, and Jay
Gould's boy George is said TO be n chip of
the old block and fully the equal of his
father as a sharp trader. George Gould is
now about - years Of age and has a child
of his own. He is his fathers cOnfidant,
and is said to he as quiet and simple in his
habits as King Jay himself.
The Vanderbilt boys are also doing we'll
They have taken their fathers place in the
market, and they are not fast young men
by any means. Az to John W. CARROTS
children they are still worth their millions
and their fortunes are so large that they
will probably stick 10 them. Robert Gar
rett. who was his fathers successor in the
railroad, does not seem to have successfully
managed his trust, aud it wa the branch
ing out that he did that brought the road
into trouble. He is rather ~extravagant in
some of his habits, but his I rtune is so
large that he will hardly be pinched, and
as to the estate of his sister aud brother,
they RIM high into the millions.
Senator Hearst, the millionaire represen-
tative of California. has a boy who is a
! graduate of Harvard and who proposes TO
make a newspaper man of himself. He is
now employed on his fathers paper, the
San Francisco ErdmiRer, and it is said that
he possesses considerable journalistic tai
eut. Theodore Roosevelt is a rich mans
son who does lot disgrace his father, and
the millionaire Lorrillards have used we'll
the business their father left them. Re
turning to the habitsof rich men, it is in
teresting to look at their ~gastronomlc taste,
and the New York Cook lately had inter
views with some Of the most noted mil
louaires as to what they ate and drank.
Jay Gould's fsvorite dish is baked pota-
toes. Think of 3 mar worth 500. 000, 900
preferring baked potatoes over all other
yisnds. The poorest Irish peasant can
have as good food to eat, and all of Gould's
millions tickle his stomach no more than
if he were worth thousands. Good milk,
vegetables and plain meat, with a little
bit of oatmeal, is all he eats for breakfast,
aud he says he has never lost his fondness
for the style of food he used to have On his
fathers farm. Russell Sage has a breakfaS:
of cracked wheat, a steak and o baked
potato every morning before he goes to
work. He eats grits 1855 days in the year,
and has baked apples half the time. His